Contact: ryebrennan at gmail dot com or rybrennan at ucsb dot edu

Published Works

• Brennan, Ry. 2022. “Technoregionalism: Decentralizing Relations Among Humans, Ecologies, and Technologies.” The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 16 (1): 71-81. DOI:10. 18848/2325-1662/CGP/v16i01/71-81.

• Brennan, Ry. 2022. “Techoregions of Insurrection: Decentralizing Energy Infrastructures and Manifesting Change at Scale.” In Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures, edited by Majia Nadesan, Martin Pasqualetti, and Jennifer Keahey. New York: Elsevier.

• Brennan, Ry. 2020. “The Resiliency of Community Pandemic Preparedness.” Contexts, Special Issue: The Global Impact of the Coronavirus. March 30.

Manuscripts in Progress

• Ry Brennan. “Energy Democracy Framework.” Upon Invitation to the Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology from Edward Elgar.

• Ry Brennan and David Pellow. “Prison Ecology and Environmental Justice.” Upon Invitation to American Behavior Scientist.

Conference Talks

• “Technoregionalism: Decentralizing Relations Among Humans, Ecologies, and Technologies.” 2021. Eleventh International Conference on the Constructed Environment: Building the Anthropocene, University of Calgary.

• “Technoregionalism: Recuperating a Strategy for Liberatory Decentralism at Scale.” 2021. Pacific Sociological Association, Virtual Conference.

• “Don’t Lobby the Warden, Seize the Technoregion: Mobilizing Technological Infrastructures Against Toxic Prisons.” 2021. Pacific Sociological Association, Virtual Conference.

• “New Strategies Against a New Right: Deprogramming Postmodern Conservatism in the Classroom.” 2021. Pacific Sociological Association, Virtual Conference.

• “Brush Yourself Off and Come Back to the Table: Bringing Insights of Intersectional Organizing to Environment-Labor Coalition Work.” 2020. Pacific Sociological Association, Eugene, OR.

• “From Aurochs to Electric Hummers: A New Typology of Eco-Fascism.” 2020. Pacific Sociological Association, Eugene, OR.

• “Strong Facilitation and Constructive Dialogue: Refusing to Play the Alt-Right Game.” 2020. Pacific Sociological Association, Eugene, OR.

• “Eco-Modernism and Eco-Fascism: Uncomfortable Resemblances and Leftist Alternatives.” 2018. Society of Global Scholars Conference: Alter-Globalizations, UCSB.

Guest Lectures

• “Mixing Methods in Social Science: How to Be a Fox in a World of Hedgehogs.” 2021. UCSB PACE Program on Environmental Advocacy, Leadership, and Social Change. Professors John Foran, Ken Hiltner, and David Pellow, UCSB.

• “Ecology, Society, and Alter-Globalization.” 2019. Introduction to Sociology. Professor Howard Winant, UCSB.

• “Affinity, Identity, Tactics.” 2018. Hope That Works Seminar. Professors John Foran and Marc McGinnes, UCSB.